The SPIDER and the FLY

Navigating Compromise with the Enemy

ENTERTAINMENT: Latin (Roman not Spanish origin)

ETYMOLOGY (12th-16th century)

• Enter: Means "inside"

• Tain: Means "to grasp, to hold, to possess, occupy, or control"

• Ment: Means "the mind"

The original meaning of the word Entertainment was malevolent in nature. To keep someone without their knowing through distractions with ulterior motives not known to the ‘entertained.’ Vanity ingested is a Spell intertwined with Words and Song - for the entertainment of the masses.

"The Spider and the Fly"

A poem by Mary Howitt, published in 1829

IV.

"Sweet creature!" said the spider, "you're witty and you're wise.

How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!

I have a little looking-glass upon my parlour shelf,

If you'll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself."

"I thank you, gentle sir," she said, "for what you're pleased to say,

And bidding you good morning now, I'll call another day."

V.

The spider turned him round about, and went into his den,

For well he knew, the silly fly would soon come back again:

So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner, sly,

And set his table ready, to dine upon the fly.

Then he went out to his door again, and merrily did sing,

"Come hither, hither, pretty fly, with the pearl and silver wing;

Your robes are green and purple – there's a crest upon your head;

Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead."

The TRAP -

13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. 15 Then, when desire has conceived,

• it gives birth to sin (off target);

• and sin, when it is full-grown,

• brings forth death.

• Address: JAMES 1:13-15 Bible

The BAIT -

POWER, FAME, FORTUNE was the third temptation, after forty days/nights of fasting outdoors in the wild. Yeshua (Jesus in Greek)